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Data warehouses, data lakes, and the cloud

Data warehouses, data lakes, and the cloud

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Data warehouses, data lakes, and the cloud

- [Instructor] I love old books. I love the feel, I love the look. I love the formal typesetting, the page-long paragraphs, the formal language, the complete absence of footnotes and references. But they're musty, they're fragile, and really, they're risky to lend out. You don't know if they're going to come back intact. They're hardly how I would want to store my operational data. And so after the era of books as data we got to go to digital data sets. But so often the data did, and frequently still does, exist as a local file on one person's own computer where it may not be able to do much good, except for that one person's desktop. Organizations have always been trying to find ways to get the message out. And several developments in data storage have helped with that goal and helped deal with the massive quantities of data that are part and parcel of big data. The first solution, the first step, in this direction was…

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